News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-15
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

| last SuppldHIeu ny WHICH,
A lady in a Mexican suburban town
near Orzaba fell dead while Waiting.
Gilt cords and passementeries are used
to trim costumes of black silk and vel
| vet.
Miss Nellie King is a crack detective
in Minneapolis. She is only twenty
years old.
Trimmings of both large and small
hats are arranged highest at the back of
| the crown.
Shot cloths are new. These have two
colors interviewer to make the ground
changeable.
Tall trimmings, like fringe, in dark
furs, are used to edge visites and other
short wraps of fur, plush, velvet or cloth.
Ostrich feather fringes in single or
double rows are used to edge plush and
velvet wraps for dressy day and evening
wear.
Embroidered crepe lisse, in stripes
or dots, is used for evening toilets
in combination with bengaline, satin or
MORE.
Wide borders of fur are used about the
foot of cloth and velvet dresses, and still
wider borders are seen upon long
cloaks.
A novelty in bonnet trimmings is the
chenille feathers which are made of
chenille and beads and trim very eff
fectively.
A new wool fabric for dresses has
a twilled surface, with a fleecy selvage
two or three inches wide which is used
for trimming.
Matinee sacques or tea jackets are
made of soft surah or India silk, and
deliberately trimmed with gold embroid-
cry and lace.
| Among the richest fabrics for trim
| ming black and colored evening dresses
are black Spanish laces with velvet or
brOcaded stripes.
| A feature of the new toilets is the trim
mings of silk cord passementerie or of
shaded beads which are lighter than the
material of the dress.
Sleeves of different fabric from the
rest of the corsage, but matching the vest
and other accessories, are seen on both
silk and cloth costumes.
Miss F. H. Muller, of London, a mem
Der of the London School Board, says the
United States is certainly the earthly
paradise of the gentler sex.
household who subscribed to the jubilee
gift has received silver medal in COM
memoration of the event.
Mrs. NJ E. DeGreer, the woman
lawyer of Topeka, is gaining reputa-
tiOn as an eloquent and forcible speaker.
The list of her clients is also increasing.
! The new seal jackets, which are likely
to be very popular with young ladies' are
n taIlOI'-n1dp cloth
Jack et,-audi seNerll-coq ueLLisla-s shapes are
shown.
Black hats and black wraps are worn
with dresses of every color, and black
MORE ribbon is the fash enable trimming
upon both black and colored velvet bon
nets and hats.
Young girls wear straight band OF
fur about the throat for collar, tapping
1t at the left side under small head of
the animal, or finishing the overlapping
end with tail tips.
It is stated that Mrs. NJ Louise
Thomas, President of the Sorosis, is one
of the most successful beekeepers in the
country, gathering ten thousand pounds
of honey in year.
Plastrons of plain white, yellow, blue
red, or pink silk are sometimes used as
detachable ac cessories to render a tailor
made gown sufficiently dressy for visit
ing or afternoon tea wear.
Dressy tailor gowns are made decora-
tive and dressy with gold, silver and
steel braiding, and Fedora plastrons of
white or celored silk, surah, peau de sole
and bengaline being preferred.
The dressieSt wraps are profusely or
namented with bead embroideries, motifs
and passementeries, with lace, rain
fringes, tassels, ribbon fots, and some
have band of fur of feathers added to all
this.
A bow of lace edge fulled into gen.
erous frill on which many yards of chan
lilly edging are gathered or else fluffy
looking bow of ostrich feather makes
very stylish and elegant finish to a call
ing costume.
Figured velvets were never before so
prettily combined as now. as they are
shown in good variety of beautiful de-
signs and colorings. Three or more
colors are often used in making these
beautiful effects.
From the head centre of millinery
STYLES we learn that bonnets are not only
of all shapes, but also of all materials,
from fets and cloth to velvet, plush,
broche, feather fringes, and for evening
of let, lace and tulle, while tinsel rcigns
supreme over all.
A skirt of velvet, velveteen, or cOrdu-
roy, and an undraped long po!onaise or
redingote of light lady's cloth, with vel
vet sleeves and collar, or cuffs and col
lar, is a late and much admired form of
the tailor gown
The sealskin visite remains a popular
, fur wrap, and its beauty is usually en-
HANGED by borders of contrasting fur or
: with tail fringe. Black marten, sable
. mink, Persian lamb, natural beaver, blue
and black fox, bear, lynx and wolverine
are all fashionable furs for such borders.
; The newest ribbons are the most brill
, liant and effective decorations for bon
, nets and hats, as well as for accessories
of the toilet, that have been in vogue
for years. They arc, in fact, revival Of
fancy of forty years ago or more, but
produced in greater variety and cffec-
! | tiveness than ever.
White and black striped silk under
skirts are worn with bodices and full
! overdresses of black light wool, foulard,
surah, and bengalne, or pOlonaises of
those fabrics. Then the looping and
slashing are so managed as to show the
! SllIpCd uHoClohliI III itHClS anu dIOdlb
the bottom in front and at the sides
; Pastron tichus, guimpes, and variety
of dog collars, with jabOts and cascades
, of lace and ribbon are found in separate
| pieces in all the new colors and black
and white, and with Examinations of
tinsel and beads, agraffes and ta5sels
These accessories are made to wear with
, all sorts of silk, velvet, wool, and foulard
: frocks, converting the same into as many
different dressy toilets as the wearer
chooses or has accessories to do the duty.
A yellow wedding is one of the latest
freaks. The bridesmaids are in yellow,
the decorations yellow, the laces yellow,
, the flowers yellow; everything, in short,
, but the bride, who is, of course, all
5 white. wears that jaundiced hue The
effect is somewhat trying and more sug-
gestive of rousing bilious attack than
the gentle, amorous scene fashionable
t marriage ceremony seeks to be. How
, ever, anything for change
I Hc.0M.
? Ir is dill cult to pass the butter" at
some boarding house tables without
lolding the nose.